This article dates to August 2014, but its concerns remain current and pressing: what do the ways in which we “collect” and “conserve” the past reveal about what we want from it?
Melissa Eddy, “Lost in Translation: Germany’s Fascination with the American Old West”
Claremont Graduate University (CGU’s) East and Peggy Phelps Galleries present the exhibition Biomythography: Secret Poetry and Hidden Angers, on view Oct. 20-31, 2014, with a public reception on Tuesday, Oct. 21 from 6-9 PM.
Biomythography, a literary term defined by poet Audre Lorde in her seminal piece Zami: A New Spelling of My Name as “combining elements of autobiography, the novel, and personal mythology,” has been know to shape theories of intersectionality and highlight the idea of internal, external, and multiple selves.
The exhibition Biomythography: Secret Poetry and Hidden Angers is the first in a series of exhibitions that seek to investigate biomythography as an interdisciplinary visual arts practice.
The exhibition, curated by Chris Christion and Jessica Wimbley, features video, performance, installation, sculpture, photography, and 2d mixed media works.
Artists Include: THE ADZE, Zeina Baltagi, Crystal Z. Campbell, Chris Christion, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Abdul Mazid, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Thinh Nguyen, Juliana Paciulli, Glynnis Reed, Rachelle Rojany, Yoshi Sakai, Monica Sandoval, and Jessica Wimbley.
Programming during the exhibition includes:
• THE ADZE, Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 7 PM.
• Kingsley Tufts Poetry Reading & Art Exhibit, with featured readings by 2014 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Afaa Michael Weaver, Pomona College Professor and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets Claudia Rankine, and poets Elizabeth Cantwell and Jason Morphew. Friday, Oct. 24, from 6-9 PM.
CGU’s East and Peggy Phelps Galleries are at 251 E 10th Street in Claremont, CA 91711
The University of Maryland, College Park invites applications for an appointment as associate professor in our interdisciplinary Women’s Studies Department. We seek a senior scholar focusing on race and racialization, whose principal area of research is African American and/or African Diaspora related.
The successful applicant will be expected to teach courses in her or his area of expertise as well as to share in teaching the core undergraduate and graduate courses in Women’s Studies. The scholar in this position will have the opportunity to contribute to building departmental strengths and emphases, including the minor in Black Women’s Studies, as well as new curricula at the graduate and undergraduate level. As a senior member of the faculty, the scholar is expected to participate actively in the life of the Department and the University.
We seek a scholar with a distinguished record of research and scholarship, a demonstrated commitment to excellence in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and an aptitude for mentoring graduate students in an interdisciplinary program. Ph.D. or comparable terminal degree required.
Applications should be submitted online to https://ejobs.umd.edu (position number 104153) and include a 3-4 page cover letter (describing scholarly achievements, contributions to relevant fields, and trajectory of work as it relates to current research agenda; teaching philosophy and experience, including experience in mentoring graduate and/or undergraduate students; and major contributions to the institutions, professions and communities in which the applicant has served), a curriculum vitae, a writing sample (one article or book chapter), one syllabus, and the contact information for three recommenders who will submit their references online. If there are other forms of work or urls related to their work that candidates want the committee to consider, applicants have the option of submitting a single pdf file with a representative sample. For best consideration, please ensure that all application materials are uploaded by December 1, 2014.
For questions about the application process, contact JV Sapinoso at sapinoso@umd.edu; questions about the position should be addressed to: Elsa Barkley Brown, Chair, Search Committee, via email to barkleyb@umd.edu.
The Women’s Studies Department at the University of Maryland is recognized as one of the leading programs in its field within the United States and beyond. With twelve core faculty and more than eighty affiliate faculty, our department offers the B.A. and Ph.D. degrees, undergraduate certificates in LGBT Studies and in Women’s Studies, a minor in LGBT Studies, a joint minor in Black Women’s Studies (with African American Studies), and a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies. Feminist Studies, one of the leading journals of interdisciplinary scholarship in our field, is housed on our campus. The University of Maryland is situated in the greater metropolitan area connecting Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., and has access to the exceptional range of rich cultural, political, and social resources there, including the executive offices of the National Women’s Studies Association.
The University of Maryland, College Park, actively subscribes to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, political affiliation, and gender identity or expression. Minorities, Women, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. This position is contingent upon the continued availability of funds.
This article swings at and misses its targets; the journalist wants to express his admiration for what he reads as diversity and multicultural identity in New Zealand. But he fails to get out of the gate cleanly; he does not line up key terms to ensure that he and readers are on the same page when, for instance, “race” is evoked. For that reason, the absence of interrogation into historical relationships in the country is not surprising. One can only wish for a consideration of the Wellington (or Auckland) Street in this article. . . I guess the posted comments are telling.
There is something going on with haka performances. What do those who perform haka think they’re doing? What do various audiences see when they watch haka dances? Are they watching masquerade? Watching the visualization of a national anthem as movement and chanting? Is there a collective experience?
Duke University, Durham North Carolina. Tenure-track Assistant Professor or Tenured Associate Professor in the Arts of the Black Atlantic World. The Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, jointly with the Department of African and African American Studies, seeks a scholar who broadly studies African artistic practices, tracing the relationships between, on the one hand, African art and visual culture and, on the other, African-influenced or-associated arts in the Americas and other diasporic locales. Duke University encourages interdisciplinary research and welcomes a variety of methods.
Especially encouraged to apply are specialists in Caribbean or Latin American art, media arts, or the historical and critical examination of race in visual representation. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in art history or a related discipline, demonstrate a strong research concentration in the visual arts, and be conversant with current methodological and theoretical issues.
Letters of application and a curriculum vitae should be submitted by November 1, 2014, to the automated job application service, www.academicjobsonline.org. All applications received by November 1, 2014, will be guaranteed consideration.
The Search Committee will interview at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, IN (20-23 November 2014).
Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual’s age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
The Montego Bay Cultural Centre and National Gallery West are pleased to present the Montego Bay premiere of the documentary ‘The Price of Memory,’ a documentary film by Karen Marks Mafundikwa, on Saturday, October 18, starting at 7 pm, at the Montego Bay Cultural Centre, Sam Sharpe Square. The film maker will be in attendance to introduce the film and to answer questions afterwards. Admission will be free but donations in support of the Montego Bay Cultural Centre programmes will be gratefully accepted.
Filmed over the span of eleven years, ‘The Price of Memory’ explores the legacy of slavery in the UK and Jamaica and the initiatives and debates surrounding reparations. The film starts in 2002, with Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Jamaica as part of her Golden Jubilee celebrations, when she is petitioned by a small group of Rastafari for slavery reparations. The film traces this petition and the…
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Special Issue: Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition in the British Caribbean
Edited by Christer Petley and Stephan Lenik
Stephan Lenik and Christer Petley, ‘Introduction: The Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition in the British Caribbean’
Section I – Planters, workers and the development of plantation space
1. Douglas V. Armstrong and Matthew C. Reilly, ‘The Archaeology of Settler Farms and Early Plantation Life in Seventeenth-Century Barbados’
2. Stephanie Bergman and Frederick H. Smith, ‘Blurring Disciplinary Boundaries: The Material Culture of Improvement during the Age of Abolition in Barbados’
3. Christer Petley, ‘Plantations and Homes: The Material Culture of the Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaican Elite’
Section II – Material inequalities and practices inside enslaved communities
4. Justin Roberts, ‘The “Better Sort” and the “Poorer Sort”: Wealth Inequalities, Family Formation and the Economy of Energy on British Caribbean Sugar Plantations, 1750-1800’
5. James A. Delle and Kristen R. Fellows, ‘Death and Burial…
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The Department of Art and Art History at the University of Alabama seeks to appoint a faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of African American art with a sub- or co-specialty in the art of the broader African diaspora. Expertise in African American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is preferred, with the ability to teach a broad temporal range of material desired. This is a tenure track position. Primary instructional responsibilities include teaching existing and developing new courses in the history of African American art and art of the African diaspora, as well as graduate seminars in area(s) of specialization.
The University of Alabama is home to the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, a nationally renowned collection with a focus on twentieth-century African American art, and the successful candidate will serve a pivotal role in developing and sustaining faculty, student, and community engagement with that collection. Other responsibilities include advising students; participating actively in the graduate program; developing and maintaining a strong record of scholarly research with publications and service to the profession; and engaging in departmental, college, and university service.
Questions about this search should be directed to the Search Chair, Dr. Tanja Jones (tljones10@as.ua.edu). Review of applications will begin on 1/12/15 and will continue until the position is filled.
Details for applying can be found at: https://facultyjobs.ua.edu/postings/36075
Yesterday’s New York Times included a story, “At Gateway to Hamptons, Ku Klux Klan Advertises for New Members,” by Al Baker. Here’s a link to Baker’s story, which rightly focuses on the undeniably anti-immigrant impetus behind contemporary flyers and pamphlets produced by the Klan:
I want to draw attention to one of the images that accompanied Baker’s story: Times photographer Nicole Bengiveno’s photo poignantly captures a pair of brown-skinned hands holding the Klan recruitment letter and hate-mongering caricatures. What’s striking is the Klan’s reliance on undying, racist iconography, which communicates the group’s belief that it’s still legible and viable in the twenty-first century:
That visual strategies–exaggerations and distortions of ethno-cultural physiognomies and the marshaling of symbols attached to class and national types–still work in nativist discourse makes clear that racialization is always dependent on representation.
DEPARTMENT OF ART
FULL-TIME TENURE-TRACK
*OAA Position No. 15-16 ART-ARTHISTORY-TT
THE UNIVERSITY: California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) is known for award-winning programs, expert instruction, a diverse student body of over 14,000 students, and a choice of more than 100 career-focused fields of study. The University has campuses in Hayward, Contra Costa County, Online, and in Oakland, California. Our 600 faculty offer bachelor’s degrees in 42 fields, minors in 62 fields, master’s degrees in 36 fields, and 1 doctoral degree program. http://www20.csueastbay.edu/
THE DEPARTMENT: The Department of Art serves over 420 Art majors and offers the BA and BFA degrees in several option areas including art history and an MA in Multimedia. Please visit our website at http://www20.csueastbay.edu/class/departments/art/
DUTIES OF THE POSITION: Teaching and curriculum development in art history in the areas of contemporary, modern, and world art history. Recruiting potential students for the Department of Art through building and maintaining connections with community and professional organizations as well as local community colleges. Maintain a continuous record of professional activity (e.g. scholarly work) commensurate with assigned teaching and other duties as required by University retention, tenure, and Promotion policies and procedures. Please note that teaching assignments at California State University, East Bay include courses at the Hayward, Concord and Online campuses. In addition to teaching, all faculty have advising responsibilities, assist the department with administrative and/or committee work, and are expected to assume campus-wide committee responsibilities.
RANK AND SALARY: Assistant Professor. Salary is dependent upon educational preparation and experience. Subject to budgetary authorization.
DATE OF APPOINTMENT: Fall Quarter, 2015
QUALIFICATIONS: Candidate must have earned a doctorate in art history no later than the effective date of the appointment. Candidates must have a demonstrated record of scholarly achievement specializing in contemporary, modern art and theory. Scholarly achievement or work in contemporary art and new media are preferred. Scholarly achievement or work in world art, ethnicity in art, and gender topics in art are preferred. Candidates should demonstrate experience in teaching, mentoring, research, or community service that has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and excellence. Additionally, applicants must demonstrate a record of scholarly activity. This University is fully committed to the rights of students, staff and faculty with disabilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. For more information about the University’s program supporting the rights of our students with disabilities see: http://www20.csueastbay.edu/af/departments/as/
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Evaluation of applicants will begin October 1, 2014 and continue until the position is filled. Please submit a letter of application, which addresses the qualifications noted in the position announcement; a complete and current vita; a statement of teaching interests/philosophy; and three (3) letters of recommendation at:
https://my.csueastbay.edu/psp/pspdb1/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL
NOTE: California State University, East Bay hires only individuals lawfully authorized to work in the United States. All offers of employment are contingent upon presentation of documents demonstrating the appointee’s identity and eligibility to work, in accordance with the provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act. If you are considered as a finalist for the position, you may be subject to a background check.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, CSUEB does not discriminate on the basis of any protected categories: age, ancestry, citizenship, color, disability, gender, immigration status, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran’s status. The University is committed to the principles of diversity in employment and to creating a stimulating learning environment for its diverse student body.
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